Necessity knows no Sunday.
AGNES REPPLIERit is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
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The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
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There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
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It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
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The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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